Word: fruits
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...carried it back to Damascus and their native villages. That may be true, but the rapid spread of the disease did not speak well for Syrian medicine and sanitation. Indeed, President Assad rebuked his health authorities for their poor performance. They responded by closing swimming pools, public beaches, fruit juice and ice cream parlors, and many restaurants. Proprietors of the restaurants that remained open were warned that any violation of food laws could mean immediate imprisonment. To add to the troubles, Syria's agriculture was threatened with disaster as its bumper crops of fruits and vegetables were blackballed...
...legged, up-to-3-in.-wide crustaceans are being marketed nationwide by The Great American Crab Co., Inc. of Orlando, Fla., which boasts it will sell some 750,000 in its first year. They will eat peanut butter and jelly, dog food, cereal, lettuce or fruit, though GAC would naturally prefer to have crab fanciers feed them its "special dinner mix" at $2 per 3-oz. shaker. Many owners buy fancy shells to serve as crab pads, coral trees for them to play in and, of course, leashes. Though they have less personality than, say, dolphins, fond owners aver that...
...motorists find that pulling into a gas station can be a lonely experience-no smiling greeting, no wipe of the windshield, all too often not even an attendant. Sometimes indeed the station itself has disappeared, its facilities closed up entirely or transformed into animal hospitals, used-car lots or fruit stands...
...Backstate at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, the Kris and Rita show was already in progress. Bursting out of his dressing room, he knocked anxiously on her door. "What should I do with all this fruit?" Glancing at the gift basket, she replied, "We'll take it home to the kids." He nodded happily and left. A moment later, he knocked again. "What time is it?" She told him. A third knock. "Why is the phone in my room ringing?" At that, Rita rolled her eyes and smiled sweetly: Kris Kristofferson is one superstar you take exactly...
...artillery officer in World War II, commanding a reconnaissance battery in one of the most dangerous of frontline positions. During the long pauses between the fighting, he kept a war diary and even managed to complete several short stories based on his experience. Prussian Nights is the fruit of Captain Solzhenitsyn's participation in the rampageous march of the Red Army across East Prussia to Berlin in the last months of the war. As Solzhenitsyn tells it, men and machines were a motley...